Well, I'm back, again. Hehe, I think I need some new mannerisms.

So, in the interest of staying fresh, let's try this. "Yo yo yo! I got some spankin' new junk comin' up the place where the sun don't shine and I thank y'all's gonna' love it y'all!"

Sorry, that just doesn't work for me, and I honestly think I did it wrong there so I promise I'll never do it again (I keep promises, well, most of them anyway).

Okay, well anyway, I really do got some new stuff, but it's comin up the 'pike' not the place where the sun don't shine. I'm still not exactly sure what I meant by that. Oh well!

Alex: Okay, where are we again?

Alex Ultra: Uh, I think Vegeta's about to kill Buttercup.

Alex: Huh? I don't see Vegeta in the script!

Alex Ultra: No, I mean Vegeta's here, and he's about to kill Buttercup.

Alex: [Turns around and sees Vegeta] Vegeta! What are you doing here!? [Takes a critical second look] Hey, love the new hair color.

Vegeta: [Turns red] BAKA ONNA!! THE GREEN BRAT PUT RED STUFF IN MY SHAMPOO!!!

Alex: Really? Well I still say it's a good look on you!

Alex Ultra: [Trying to hold in temper] Why do you people ALWAYS come HERE!!?? [And failing badly]

Alex: Uh, I think they follow me or something...

Buttercup: Well duh! They're YOUR gates!

Vegeta: QUIET GREEN ONE!!

Alex: Vegeta, put her down before...! [Looks at Alex Ultra nervously]

Alex Ultra: [Laughing maniacally] Too late. Now it's time for you to meet my LITTLE FRIENDS!!! [Pulls out the Titan sword and THE FRYING PAN OF DOOM, DEATH, AND TERROR] VEGETA!!! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE OR ELSE!!

As I run them all out of my house, why don't you read this chapter? Don't worry; I'm not in it so you don't need to worry about anyone being impaled (ahem...).

~~~~~~*** THE TEACHER, SORT OF ***~~~~~~

'Well, that was an interesting feeling!' Was the first thought going through Alex's mind after finally separating from Bubbles. See, while inside Bubbles she had no body of her own, so she literally had to build one and... well, you don't want to hear about this. Do you? So I'm gonna skip the how and just say she did.

But it felt funny, kay? 'Okay, now where was I?' Alex saw three sets of extra-large eyes staring her down and suddenly remembered where she was.

"Well, girls? What do you think?" Immediately Bubbles tackled her to the ground, smiling like an idiot and laughing her little laugh. "Okay, uh, hi, Bubbles!"

"HI! I'm so glad to finally see you! You don't know what it was like to talk to you but can't see you!!"

"Uh, yeah! I've done that before!"

Bubbles' expression immediately became confusion. "You have? But you could see me!"

"I know! But trust me." She went to thought speech {I have talked with people like that!}

Bubbles smiled broadly. "Okay, now can I get up?"

Blossom had floated down to face the now-present Alex. "Hi! Welcome to Townsville!"

"Um, yeah! But since we already know each other, we can skip introductions. Hehe." Now Alex smiled brightly.

Bubbles looked back at Alex. "Hey, what were you gonna' teach us? Huh? Huh? Huh?"

"Oh, that! Well, it'll take some time to explain, but first. Do you mind if I stretch my muscles a bit?"

They all looked at her blankly, but no one said not to, so she powered up a little and did a few exercises in mid air, in the true style of the dbz warriors of course.

"Hey girls!" The three of them came out of their confused trances and looked up at her. Buttercup had a special look in her eye, Blossom was curious what Bubbles had been talking about, and Bubbles was, well, Bubbles! "Hey, do you think you can spar with me?"

"Uh, sure. I'll go first."

"No! All of you! Together!" They looked to each other, then shrugged.

"Okay."

"And don't hold back either!" She went into a defensive stance and readied for the swinging. But it wasn't as forceful as she had hoped it would be. "Oh, come on you guys. Can't you do any better?"

All three of them stopped instantly and looked at her blankly. "Uh, no."

"Oh come on! You three have been fighting all your lives! You HAVE to be capable of more than that!" Seeing their blank faces made her think about it for a second. "Okay, here, try this. Don't try to hit me hard, just don't flex your muscles and move as fast as you can! Kay?"

"Uh, we'll try?" Bubbles tried to answer but Buttercup tried it out first.

"Here I go!" She launched herself after Alex and tried some punches, each of which were easily dodged. "Hey! Stand still!"

"Okay!"

"Okay?"

"Okay?"

"She said yes?" The other two looked at Bubbles, who only shrugged.

"Yeah! I want to see just how strong you three are! And this is about the only way to really get some kind of measure!"

"Um, okay... Buttercup? You want to go first?"

Buttercup smiled a little and looked at Alex, who was still smiling like an idiot on a Caffeine high, you know, like Goku... "Sounds good to me. I feel like hittin' somethin'."

Alex smirked a little, "Well then come on! I have all day but not much patience so I'd like to get this over with!" She took a passive stance and just floated there above the ground. "And don't hold back either!"

"Okay!" Buttercup launched herself at Alex, who only floated there, and swung as hard as she could, making contact with her jaw.

Alex recoiled from the hit, but that was about it. She wasn't sent flying anywhere, and she didn't even budge from that spot, her head was just kind of sent reeling behind her.

She stayed like that for a moment letting Buttercup think about what had just happened. Then she spoke, slowly straightening back up to her standing position. "Okay, that's enough Buttercup. Thanks, uh, Blossom? Would you like to try?" The girls were confused now, but Blossom tried anyway. She gave it all she had, but got no more reaction from Alex than Buttercup did.

Alex was disappointed in them, but didn't give up. "Okay Bubbles. Your turn."

Bubbles looked down and closed her eyes. "I'm not sure I know how..."

"Sure you do! Just remember that time you freaked out on us and tried to go out on your own!"

"Yeah! You were like Wham! Bam! Pow!! Whooo!! Pop!! Mojo!! Level 11! HARD CORE!! HAHAHAHA!!!"

"OKAY BUTTERCUP!! I think she gets the idea!"

"Oh, sorry... hehe."

"No, it's not that. I don't think I can hit her!"

"Hey! I've got an idea! Why don't you pretend that I'm about to hurt your sisters! You know, really bad!"

Bubbles' head immediately shot up. "You wouldn't do that!"

"Of course I wouldn't! But let's just pretend! Come on, I know you can pretend!"

Blossom rubbed the side of her head and looked sideways at Bubbles, who only smiled stupidly. "Yeah, I know how you pretend..." and she left it there. (You'd have to have seen that episode to understand that... sorry. I really do watch the PPG too much, don't I?)

"Yeah, okay. I'll try." She stood up, looked at Alex, and tried to picture Mojo there. Laughing that stupid laugh of his and standing over Blossom and Buttercup.

Tears came to her eyes as she thought about how Mojo would aim his blaster- ray down at the girls and smile expectantly.

Her expression became one of anger as she shot up and shouted at the figure before her. "DON'T HURT MY SISTERS!!! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!"

"Huh?" Alex didn't even have time to react, but she was ready for it as Bubbles hit her with a straight punch to the face, sending her flying down a nearby city street. "Wow! I do good work!" She wiped blood from her mouth and stood up to fly back out of the trench created by her landing. "Wonder what she was thinking about!" She didn't get the chance to find out, because by the time she saw Bubbles again, she had forgotten all about it.

"Hi!"

Alex sighed and looked beaten. 'This is going to take a while.'

~~~ 3 Hours later ~~~

"Okay girls. You ready?"

"Yeah!"

"Yeah!"

"Ready for what?" The others looked at Bubbles again, who only shrugged, again.

Alex sighed and explained it again. "Okay look, I'll explain it one more time. You're going to fuse. The three of you together. I've already taught you the method so all you need to do is try it out."

Buttercup wasn't so sure about it though. 'I'm going to be stuck with Bubbles?' "Hey, how long does this last again?"

"Uh, about an hour. Now are we going to get on with this or not?"

"Okay, sounds good!" Blossom stuck out her hand, inviting the others to do the same.

"Fine, whatever." Buttercup stuck her hand in.

"Heeheehee, yeah!" Bubbles giggled how she does as she put her hand in as well.

"Good." Alex smiled as she watched the three of them do the fusion she had learned long ago from some aliens in her own dimension. (By now she considers the DBZ world her dimension, even though it isn't.)

The three of them struggled as they pulled on each other, seeming as if they were pulling away from each other, but really doing as they had been taught.

"Good! I can see your energy! Now start spinning!" They did as they were told, remembering to remember how it felt so they could do it later.

Their trails mixed into some kind of white light as they span faster and faster, creating a small tornado of energy that seemed to emanate energy.

Alex had to yell just to be heard over the scream of the ever-growing tornado. "Good! Now reverse it!" It took a second, but the twister seemed to explode as the three of them complied and reversed their spin, still pulling at each other as hard as they could. The energy was blinding for a moment.

Then it all stopped.

Alex stood in awe for a moment, then decided to take it all in.

The girls had done it, because in their place was one person. Her hair was straight, brown, and reached to just below her shoulders. For a moment Alex thought she might not have eyes like the others, then saw that her irises were almost as white as the white of her eyes. (Is that confusing enough? Oh wait, I shouldn't be in this, I'll shut up now.) And she wore a matching white dress, which, strangely, seemed appropriate.

Believe it or not, light red, light blue, and green are the three colors of light (just not of pigment), and now the three of them had combined to make someone with qualities from each, but not quite like any of them.

As she spoke her voice reminded Alex of a higher-pitched version of Buttercup's voice, with the confidence of Blossom's voice mixed in. But definitely not like the second-hand sound of Vegito or Gotenks, who sound like they just mixed the two voices together. "So? What do you think?"

Alex snapped out of her stupor and looked the new Powerpuff in the eye, which were disturbingly white, and smiled sincerely. "Wow! I couldn't have done better myself! So, uh, what's your name?"

"Hmm, I don't know! How about, uhm, uh..."

"How about Butterfly?"

"Butterfly?"

"You're right, that's kind of stupid huh?" They both took thoughtful poses (in mid-air) and focused on the problem.

Suddenly they both spurt out something that they had thought of.

"Beast!" Lil' miss no name went first.

"Bonbon!" Was Alex's idea.

"Bonbon?" A question.

"Beast?" Yet another question.

"Okay, okay, this is getting us nowhere. So let's go find a dictionary or something..."

"Or we could ask the Professor!"

"Hey! Good idea! He's like a human dictionary!"

"Uh, yeah." So they flew off to get the Professor, earning some looks on the way.

When they got there they flew in like normal, and called for the Professor, Alex went first. "Professor!!" Then she realized something. "Oh, wait. He doesn't know me! Come to think of it, he doesn't know you either! Oh well, that's why we're here, isn't it?" What's her name just nodded her head and went off to find the Professor.

"Hey, do I know you?" And she found him.

"Professor! It's me! Us..." She thought for a second then grunted frustration. "ALEX!!"

"Alex?"

"Where are you? Oh! There you are!" Alex walked down the stairs to see the Professor. "Hi! I'm Alex! And you're Professor Utonium! Pleased to meet ya'!"

"Uh, hi?" His response was weak and dripping with confusion.

"Okay, now that formal introductions are out of the way, let's get down to business! Professor! Meet your daughter!"

He looked down at the still-unnamed little girl and she waved weakly. "Daughter? But I have three little girls! And none of them have brown hair!"

"Well, she both IS and ISN'T your daughters. See, this is who they are when all three of them are, uh, combined. Sort-of. See, once fused, two or more people will make a new person, who is LIKE the originals, but still a different person that's a mix between them all. Kind of like a sum of the parts that's more than a sum of the parts!" He was still staring blankly at the two of them.

"Huh?"

Alex sighed. "Okay look! This IS Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, but she's a different person and she needs a NAME!"

"Yeah, that's why we're here! Otherwise we would have shown you first!"

~~~ Okay, let's skip ahead a bit... ~~~

"Okay, uh, Begonia?"

"Begonia? ... Sounds good!"

"Yeah! Thanks Professor!"

"Uh, sure. But now, just where did you come from!?"

~~~ Let's skip ahead some more ~~~

"Really? Other dimensions!? How cool! I've got to try that sometime!"

"Uh, yeah. You do that."

"Okay, but why did you choose my little girls?"

"To make them stronger."

"But they're already strong!"

"Well, they still aren't nearly as strong as I am, and I thought I'd give them some pointers!"

"Oh, well they use Chemical X so I don't see how they could get any stronger..."

"Well, whatever you say, but there are things I can do, that you would never even imagine! But anyway, we've got to go!"

"Huh? Why?"

"'Cause her fusion will wear off soon and I still have some things to teach her before she separates!"

"Um, okay?"

~~~ Let's wrap things up here soon ~~~

Okay, here's the gist of what she taught them. She taught them to use ki, and how to do some basic things, like some martial arts moves and stuff.

Then she decided to leave.

"Do you have to go?" Bubbles was on the verge of tears.

"Yeah, I'm afraid so. If I stick around too long someone might notice, and that could mean big trouble..." She said this as she charged up her 'key', as she called it. You know, the energy she uses to make those gates?

"Okay. But promise never to forget me?"

"How could I forget you?"

"I don't know, but I'll never forget you."

"Great. Thanks Bubbles. Well, I've got to be going! Bye!" With that she ripped open a portal and jumped through, this time without a ship because her ship had been lost. 'Well, who needs a ship anyway?'

At that time Bonbon, a yellow-eyed mix between Blossom and Buttercup, floated down behind Bubbles. "Is she gone?"

Bubbles sighed. "Yeah."

"Then come on! We should be training! We promised! Remember?"

"Yeah. Coming." She gave one last mournful look at where Alex had last stood, and went off to join her 'sister' in a spar.

~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 9 ***~~~~~~

Oh, and before I forget (again), I would like to thank Dragon Fire for being my most frequent reviewer! Thanks! These are the kind of reviews authors dream about! Oh, and to answer your question, I don't know if she'll get a love interest. She might have something LIKE that, but she won't let it get that far because she knows she's a walking target (sorta). And she won't let anyone get that close because of it. (Stuff like that happens all the time, don't you know that?) Oh, and also, she moves around too much, so it's possible, but I somehow doubt it. Sorry!

Alex Ultra: Life sucks for you, doesn't it?

Alex: [Face covered in cheese] What?

Alex Ultra: I said...

Jennifer: Hey Alex! You seen Roy?

Alex: Who, the sword kid? Yeah, he's out back Kenshin!

Alex Ultra: Kenshin Himura?

Alex: Yeah! You know him?

Jennifer: Okay! Thanks!

Alex Ultra: Uh, not personally.

Yusuke: Hey, uh, Alex?

Alex & Alex Ultra: What?

Yusuke: Can you help us out here?

Alex: With what?

Inuyasha: Ah! This idiot HUMAN put too much starter fluid on the grill!

Yusuke: Hey watch it bub, I eat demons like you for breakfast!

Kurama: Oh come now Yusuke, you rarely even eat breakfast, you know that.

Keiko: Uh, a little help?

Alex Ultra: What now!?

Keiko: Uh, that pointy haired guy is throwing a fit and chasing a little girl in a green dress around everywhere!

Alex: I'm comin'!

Ahh, don't you just love these kinds of reunions? Alex's been around, hasn't she?

Oh, if you don't recognize the name Roy, he's from a game released by Nintendo only in Japan, which really sucks 'cause it looks like a good game! But you can check him out if you've got a GameCube and Super Smash Bros. Melee(. He's a hidden character but he's worth the effort!

Well anyway, I'm going to ask again what you think! What do you think? And I'm going to ask you to review. Would you review please? And that's enough for the questions. So I'm going to stop asking these stupid questions!

But I would like to say just two more things. First, how do you like that little girl's name? And second, do you know what 'Begonia' is? The one who gets it right gets something really good! (First come first serve. Sorry, I only have one!)

Anyway, I've got to get back to real life and tend to that Barbeque.

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